I went up to Walmart today with the intention of buying a lint roller, light bulbs, and absolutely nothing else.  I walked out 30 minutes later with my wallet significantly lighter.  Among the things that contributed to this were a DS Lite, New SMB, and Brain Age.  I haven't been able to spend much time with it yet, but I'm pretty impressed so far.  I'll be honest, I've steered clear of the DS for the last year and a half because, well frankly it looked like crap.  With the DS Lite, I now have a device that I'm somewhat less embarassed to pull out in public.

Whenever I walk into a game store, I make a habit of checking through all the used games to see if there's anything that catches my eye.  Specifically, I'm looking for rare games that they aren't charging an arm and a leg for.  Call me elitist or whatever, but there's some kind of satisfaction to be had from owning a quality game that few other people have had the pleasure of playing.  So it was that  stumbled across a copy of Ikaruga yeterday at EB Games.  I haven't played it yet, but since my 360 is still in Microsofts clenches, I'll probably be spending a lot of time with my Gamecube over the next couple of weeks.